These history resource uses articles from the archives of the Manchester Guardian, as well as other primary and secondary sources to provide the basis for 12 lessons. Each is fully differentiated to provide for students at different levels of learning. The lessons make full use of illustrations by the cartoonist David Low published at the time of the second world war in the Evening Standard. Key words: war, resources, Germany, D-Day, 1939, blitz, evacuation, bombs, holocaust